Sentences with phrase «inequitable student»

The Stealth Inequalities of School Funding: How State and Local School Finance Systems Perpetuate Inequitable Student Spending.

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The then government's argument was that university students are not given allowances, making it inequitable for other categories of tertiary students to be given allowances.

I want to keep fighting to change our state's inequitable education funding formula, so that every student, no matter their zip code, receives the quality education the state should provide.

Without a renewal, the city's education system — servicing some 1.1 million students — would revert to the former arrangement of local school boards, which was frequently criticized as inefficient, inequitable and corrupt.

Masters pointed to the fact that many students are falling behind and not meeting minimum standards, in part due to the inequitable distribution of quality leadership and ineffective day - to - day practices.

Federal courts should insist that states design their education systems to accomplish the aims of the right to education — be they ending inequitable disparities in educational opportunity, preparing students to be competent voters and civic participants, or ensuring that students are equal citizens.

We forget that these qualities are not implicit in government - run schools... [which have wrestled with challenges like] inequitable funding or the disproportionate assignment of minority students to special education.

It also re-creates a pretty inequitable system, given that each school will have different groups of students that meet minimum n - size that will be held accountable under each component.

If some students had access to better teaching, better schools or more government funding, then that might be considered unfair and inequitable.

Indeed, it could be argued that to fail to recognise these differences and to hold all students to the same performance expectations would be unfair and inequitable.

Indeed, it could be argued that to have different performance expectations of students in the same year of school would be unfair and inequitable.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

Particular emphasis was placed on how inequitable funding for public schools can hamper efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations, as well as on exploring what could be done to change it.

Desegregated schools, for example, can produce very inequitable outcomes for students or end up internally segregated.

We must do more, and invest more, to address the uneven and inequitable access to STEM education that contributes to the persistent achievement gap, especially among African - American and Latino students, and particularly in math and science proficiency.

Two new national reports paint a grim picture of unfair and inequitable funding of public education across states, with schools serving the highest proportion of impoverished students most often on the losing end.

«Illinois has the most inequitable education funding system in the nation, where poorer districts spend as little as $ 6,000 per student while wealthier districts spend up to $ 30,000 per student,» Ostro said in a statement.

Even with the reopening of the County's public schools following the Griffin ruling, segregation supported by a voucher system and inequitable funding persisted.24 The County's board of supervisors devoted only $ 189,000 in funding for integrated public schools.25 At the same time, they allocated $ 375,000 that could effectively only be used by white students for «tuition grants to students attending either private nonsectarian schools in the County or public schools charging tuition outside the County.»

Northeast Charter Schools Network CEO Kyle Rosenkrans said, «The IBO report confirms what charter schools have been saying for years: funding for our students is broken, inequitable, and unconstitutional — and the problem is getting worse with time.

Calling on Albany to end the inequitable funding of their children, charter school parents, educators and students were joined by Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo (D - Bronx) and Assemblyman Michael Blake (D - Bronx) for a day of action and voter registration event at Harriet Tubman Charter School in the Bronx.

In this 50th episode of the Classnotes Podcast, Bradley Scott, Ph.D., and Aurelio Montemayor, M.Ed., discuss these myths, how they fail to recognize the strengths that students bring and how they lead to inequitable and unsuccessful education.

New York, NY — Calling on Albany to end the inequitable funding of their children, charter school parents, educators and students were joined by Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo (D - Bronx) and Assemblyman Michael Blake (D - Bronx) for a day of action and voter registration event at Harriet Tubman Charter School in the Bronx.

Countries in which schools frequently hold back or kick out students with low academic performance tend to have weaker, more expensive, and more socially inequitable education systems overall according to an analysis by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Despite overwhelming odds, given inequitable charter funding and fast - paced reform - oriented timelines that all public schools are working to meet, Side by Side students are reaching achievement levels that guarantee they are on track to college and career readiness as they head toward high school.

This would circumvent the past OPSB system of a few quality magnet schools serving only the best students who could pass the entry exam and eliminate that inequitable hook my child up enrollment process said to be used extensively pre Katrina.

Matching principals to schools is not strategic, leading to an inequitable distribution of principals across schools; the least experienced principals often end up in the highest - needs schools, a result that takes a toll on students of color, low - income students, and low - achieving students.

The Austin College Access Network was featured at the annual KIPP College Partners Convening this summer focusing on the role of higher education in actively fighting against inequitable outcomes for first - generation students.

Consequently, Texas's school finance system remains largely inequitable for its low - wealth school districts and, across Texas, inadequate for its special populations, including English learner (EL) students and students from economically disadvantaged families (ED), or low - income students.

The group had recently read a research brief high - lighting the effect of teachers on student achievement as well as the inequitable distribution of teachers within districts, with higher - income, higher - performing schools getting the pick of the litter.

The author points out that disproportionate suspension and expulsion rates are more often the result of inequitable discipline practices than differences in behavior between students of color and their white peers.

«Inequitable school funding means that my students, and many across Connecticut, are shortchanged when it comes to classroom resources and access to experienced teachers, which widens the achievement gap and perpetuates the cycle of poverty in our state,» said Margaret O'Connor, a tenth - grade civics teacher at Central High School in Bridgeport.

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

Once arriving at the school, travelers will meet up with others at a press conference starting at 8:30 a.m. targeting the current inequitable transportation of students to schools away from their communities.

Instead, it promotes a «money follows the child» funding system that our reviewer points out would have the effect of making the system even more inequitable by shifting funding away from students learning English and those in poverty.

The Colorado Education Network is designed to mobilize stakeholders determined to take action for students and come together to solve the state's insufficient and inequitable level of school funding.

«The case forces California to publicly confront the inequitable reality so many of our students face in schools across the state.»

«The existence of a weighted student funding model does not prevent a state's finance system from becoming inadequate, inequitable, or overly complicated, just as North Carolina's resource allocation model does not preclude this state from having a system that is adequate, equitable and transparent,» the report said.

I salute GeorgiaCAN's advocacy for funding to be included in the FY2019 budget because we must stop short - changing students in Charter schools with inequitable funding.

TCTA urged the Texas Education Agency to do more to address inequitable gaps in the assignment of qualified teachers to poor and minority students, and to include more holistic measures of school success in its proposed State ESSA Plan.

The Partnership welcomed its role as a defendant in order to have a seat at the table to ensure reforms were implemented to protect students from this and other such inequitable policies.

At the heart of Judge Moukawsher's historic ruling is the affirmation of what educators, parents, students, and community leaders have been saying for nearly four decades — Connecticut's school finance system is irrational, inequitable, and illogical.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over-placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

Morever, the voucher proposal is inequitable: if fully funded, the authorization would provide many more dollars per student for vouchers than is allocated per student in public schools and public charter schools.

First - generation accountability, in compliance with the prescriptions of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, exposed vast, inequitable differences in student test scores across and within schools.

Further, in the last year, Illinois school students were hit with a double whammy: the inequitable funding model and underfunding by more than $ 1 billion due to the budget impasse.

He also shared his concern that black, Latino, and low - income students still fall below their white and more affluent peers on measures of achievement, in large part due to inequitable access to resources, effective educators, and rigorous coursework.

So has the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, writing in a letter last month that «the federal government must no longer be expected to subsidize the inequitable funding of public schools serving high numbers of low - income students.»

We agree with Senator Corman and most strongly urge the legislature to hold public hearings on the impact that inadequate and inequitable state education funding has on educational opportunities available to poor minority children and on schools» ability to offer all students quality CTE opportunities.

Factors such as inequitable levels of school funding, unequal distribution of highly qualified and experienced teachers, harsh disciplinary policies, minimally articulated core curriculum, and lack of consistent instructional support can result in a system that causes vulnerable students to continue falling further behind.